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  1. Pandaily44

    Donghua University Spins Transistors Into Fibers That Act as Soft Robot Circuits

    Donghua University researchers spun transistors, resistors and capacitors into a continuous fiber that functions as a circuit, using microfluidic encoded spinning, according to a Nature Electronics paper. The fibers integrated multicolor electroluminescence, analog and digital logic, and non-contact spatial sensing, and in demonstrations guided a robotic gripper and let a finger control a robotic arm and drone without touch.

  2. Pandaily57

    Shanghai AI Lab Open-Sources Intern-Decision Small Models for Structured Decisions

    Shanghai AI Lab has open-sourced Intern-Decision, a family of 0.8B, 2B and 4B parameter models that return structured decisions with probabilities instead of free text. The developers self-report that the 4B model averages 90.02% accuracy across seven test suites, ahead of a commercial reference model at 88.74%, with about 44 milliseconds of local latency on a single RTX 4090. Weights are on Hugging Face, and MetaX says the models run on its hardware from launch.

  3. Pandaily44

    Tencent Rolls Out Vertical AI Agents, From CraftBuddy to MusicBuddy, Across Its Apps

    Tencent introduced roughly eight vertical AI agent products between July and September, each built on an existing business such as games, music, WeChat or video conferencing. CraftBuddy generates 2D and 3D games from natural-language prompts with more than 40,000 prebuilt art assets, while MusicBuddy adds an AI chat panel to multitrack music editing. The products extend the "Buddy" family alongside WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy.

  4. Pandaily38

    Doubao App Launches on Huawei HarmonyOS PCs with Doubao-Seed-2.1 Pro and Turbo

    ByteDance's Doubao app is now available as a native client on Huawei HarmonyOS PCs, shipping with Doubao-Seed-2.1 Pro and Doubao-Seed-2.1 Turbo. The app offers Chat and Work modes, with Work supporting goal-based tasks, file and folder access, scheduled tasks and parallel browsing tabs. Users can download it by searching for Doubao in the HarmonyOS app store.

  6. 雷峰网 Leiphone38

    BASAL Intelligence, founded by Tsinghua AIR PhD graduate Li Jianxiong, bets on action-native embodied models

    BASAL Intelligence (本溯智能), founded by Tsinghua AIR's first PhD graduate Li Jianxiong, has raised funding led by Fifth Source Capital, with Ivy Capital, Linear Capital and WestSummit Capital participating. The company is pursuing an action-native, in-context embodied foundation model that lets robots adapt to new scenes in minutes from a few human demonstrations and self-attempts, rather than retraining.

  7. 雷峰网 Leiphone17

    Qi An Xin Leads China's Cybersecurity Market for Seventh Straight Year, Per Report

    Qi An Xin ranked first in China's network information security market with 4.39 billion yuan in revenue in 2025, according to a CCID Consulting report on a 93.08 billion yuan market. The company also led the endpoint security, security management platform, and security services segments, with a 17.5% endpoint share and 18.3% security management platform share.

  8. 雷峰网 Leiphone58

    Alibaba's Qwen Roadmap Targets 5T to 10T Parameters Amid Self-Improving Model Work

    At the Apsara Conference, Alibaba's Qwen team outlined a roadmap of Qwen4 followed by Qwen4.5 and Qwen5, aiming for 5T to 10T parameters. The article notes that Qwen3.8 reached 2.4T parameters and that Qwen3.8-Flash activates 6B parameters per inference while cutting training cost to one-ninth. It also describes Qwen3.8-Max running model-driven experiments in chip design and inference optimization, and multimodal updates including a video model slated for November.

  9. South China Morning Post · Tech22

    Xiongan New Area courts high-value tech firms to build its own industries

    China's Xiongan New Area is accelerating efforts to attract technology firms, officials and sources said, aiming to nurture local industries alongside state institutions relocated from Beijing. Officials are targeting companies that could reach valuations of 10 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) and list on markets including Hong Kong within a few years.

  10. CNBC · Technology14

    S&P 500 Closes at Record Above 7,800 as Investors Eye Fed Minutes

    The S&P 500 closed above 7,800 for the first time, marking its first record close in nearly two months, while the Nasdaq Composite also hit a fresh all-time closing high. Chipmakers led gains, with Marvell Technology up 5.8%, Advanced Micro Devices up 3% and Broadcom up 3.7%. Investors are now watching Federal Reserve September meeting minutes and a $39 billion 10-year Treasury note auction.

  11. CNBC · Technology42

    AI agent startup Manus raises over $500 million in first round since Meta deal blocked

    Manus, an AI agent startup, raised more than $500 million in a funding round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with follow-on investment from Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund. The company did not disclose its post-funding valuation, though Bloomberg reported last month it was set to double to $4 billion. The round follows Beijing's order blocking Meta's roughly $2 billion acquisition of Manus.

  15. SiliconANGLE · AI62

    Manus raises over $500M at reported $4B valuation after Meta deal collapsed

    Manus, the developer of the Manus AI agent, has raised more than $500 million led by Boyu Capital, with Tencent also investing. Bloomberg had reported a $4 billion valuation, roughly double Meta's reported offer last December, which Chinese regulators blocked in April. The funding comes days after Manus 2.0 added a new harness, Cloud Computer, and Cue, which lets agents use email accounts and digital wallets.

  16. Epoch AI · The Epoch Brief49

    Epoch AI's October 2026 Brief Covers AI Agents, Falling Costs, and China's Chip Exposure

    Epoch AI estimates the AI chips shipped through 2027 could support about 30 to 170 million concurrent frontier-model agents, or nearly 2 billion with cheaper models. Its researchers find the cost of a fixed level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter over the past three years. The newsletter also reports China's semiconductor supply-chain exposure is 2.7 times that of the US.

  17. SemiAnalysis72

    SemiAnalysis Finds China's AI Safety Rules Target Applications, Not Frontier Models

    SemiAnalysis argues China's AI safety regime is speed-first, with rules covering content and public-facing services but no frontier-risk duties tied to training compute or capability. Its dataset of 857 releases from nine leading Chinese developers found only 31 (3.6%) ever had a published safety result, and just 9 at launch. The analysis also finds that technical experts favor binding frontier rules while the top leadership's development-first preference settled the policy debate.

  20. South China Morning Post · Tech60

    Can China match Meta's Muse in the race to harness AI agents?

    Meta's Muse personal AI agent, launched on September 8, surpassed 2.5 million downloads in its first two weeks and topped free-app rankings on Apple and Google's US app stores. Its popularity has drawn attention to the emerging market for agent harnesses, where China's biggest internet companies are already competing for position. The excerpt does not provide full details on their specific products.

  21. ElevenLabs Blog39

    ElevenReader Launches in Brazil With Fábio Porchat Narration and 70,000 Portuguese Books

    ElevenReader, ElevenLabs' consumer audio platform, launches in Brazil with narration by actor and comedian Fábio Porchat. Through a partnership with Bookwire Brasil, the app offers 70,000 licensed Brazilian Portuguese titles, most of which have no audio edition. The app is free on iOS and Android, with the full catalog available through ElevenReader Ultra.

  24. X.PIN40

    Tian Keyu's unnamed startup has raised nearly $30M from investors including 5Y Capital and IDG at a $200M post-money valuation, Bloomberg reports. The NeurIPS 2024 award-winning researcher leads a 10-person team developing a 200,000-symbol visual vocabulary to help AI process video. Tian claims the approach could cut video-generation costs at least tenfold. A full model release is planned for 2027; the company has no product yet.

    Tian Keyu's unnamed startup has raised nearly $30M from investors including 5Y Capital and IDG at a $200M post-money valuation, Bloomberg reports. The NeurIPS 2024 award-winning researcher leads a 10-person team developing a 200,000-symbol visual vocabulary to help AI process video. Tian claims the approach could cut video-generation costs at least tenfold. A full model release is planned for 2027; the company has no product yet.

  25. 量子位 QbitAI49

    Manus Returns to Beijing, Hiring 17 Roles After Raising Over $500M

    Manus parent company Butterfly Effect has completed a new financing round of over $500 million, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, and is rebuilding a team in Beijing to develop AI Agent products for the Chinese market. Its recruitment page lists 17 open positions, up from 11 before the National Day holiday, including AI Agent product manager, Agent Harness engineer, Agent evaluation engineer, and LLM algorithm engineer roles.

  26. The Decoder72

    AI hacking tools let a likely single attacker breach multiple South Korean banks

    A suspected Chinese-speaking attacker breached several South Korean financial institutions between late September and early October 2026, reportedly stealing over 25,000 records from Shinhan Bank alone. The attacker used ARTEX, a Chinese open-source tool that uses AI language models to automate finding security flaws, and models named in the report include DeepSeek v4.1-flash, GLM-5.3, and Grok 4.6.

  27. 量子位 QbitAI32

    Geely unveils AI-powered Geely Smart Charging with 2250 kW peak charging power

    Geely Automobile Group launched its Geely Smart Charging technology on September 23, 2026, reaching a 2250 kW peak single-gun charging power and keeping maximum temperature at or below 65°C. The system, co-developed with StepFun and built on its PowerMind energy model, reportedly raises battery cycle life by more than 20% and targets county-level coverage by the end of 2027.

  31. X.PIN38

    The US Treasury announced its first penalty under outbound investment rules, fining Plug and Play parent Amidi $200,000 for failing to report its Chinese subsidiary's roughly $92,478 investment in robotics AI startup Noematrix. The fine exceeds twice the investment. Treasury identified a reporting violation; it did not say the transaction was prohibited or allege wrongdoing by Noematrix.

    The US Treasury announced its first penalty under outbound investment rules, fining Plug and Play parent Amidi $200,000 for failing to report its Chinese subsidiary's roughly $92,478 investment in robotics AI startup Noematrix. The fine exceeds twice the investment. Treasury identified a reporting violation; it did not say the transaction was prohibited or allege wrongdoing by Noematrix.

  32. Pandaily37

    Tencent WorkBuddy Builds a WeChat Mini-Program From a Prompt to Preview

    Tencent's WorkBuddy agent can take a plain-language request through to a WeChat mini-program preview and a publish request, according to a hands-on product test reported on October 8. In the test, the agent built a voice notebook with cloud login, storage and files, using Tencent's wand-asr-v1 for speech-to-text and GLM-5.3-Flash for sorting notes. WeChat's own review and filing steps remain outside the agent, so the test does not show that every mini program goes live automatically.

  33. South China Morning Post · Tech22

    Anthropic adds Simplified and Traditional Chinese language options to Claude chatbot

    Anthropic has added simplified and traditional Chinese as on-screen language options in Claude's web interface in supported markets. The company continues to block users in mainland China, and China briefly appeared as a billing country option before disappearing from settings, according to checks by the South China Morning Post.

  35. South China Morning Post · Tech36

    Huawei's US$3,500 trifold Mate XT 2 phone tested in a reporter's week-long review

    A South China Morning Post reporter spent a week using Huawei's Mate XT 2, a US$3,500 trifold phone with a 10.2-inch unfolded display. The source excerpt focuses on the device drawing attention at a family dinner during China's National Day "golden week" holiday in early October, with no further specifications or verdict provided in the available text.

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  1. Pandaily42

    UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen Extend Humanoid Robots to Factory Logistics

    UBTECH Robotics and FAW-Volkswagen signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop and test embodied AI robot applications in logistics and build demonstration sites. The partnership builds on UBTECH's Walker S Lite humanoid, already doing vehicle quality-inspection training at FAW-Volkswagen's Qingdao Branch, a national-level smart manufacturing demonstration factory. The companies aim to speed up humanoid deployment in smart manufacturing.

  2. IT之家 · 人工智能72

    Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, cutting run costs about 75% from Haiku 4.5

    Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, which it calls the fastest, cheapest, and most capable Haiku model so far. On average it costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, with input at $0.10 and output at $0.50 per million tokens for requests up to 100,000 tokens. Anthropic also cut Sonnet 5.5's cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens, which it says lowers run costs by about 20% on many agent tasks.

  3. Semafor · Technology42

    US and China take different approaches to bringing AI agents to consumers

    US firms are building assistants first, then letting them use other companies' websites and services, as with OpenAI's dots and Meta's Muse. Chinese players such as Tencent's Xiaowei sit inside super-app WeChat and can place orders from businesses already on the platform. Source notes Tencent earns no new fees from these purchases and that early tests show mistakes, and that Amazon has blocked Muse.

  5. Hugging Face Blog53

    TII releases Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B speech recognition model focused on Emirati Arabic

    The Technology Innovation Institute introduces Falcon-ASR, a 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic with a focus on the Emirati dialect. On six Arabic test sets it reports an average word error rate of 20.92%, versus 23.17% for the best published leaderboard result it compared against. The model also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese with the same weights, and a demo Space is available while API access and native apps are planned.